Cross-dresser
//ˈkɹɔsˌdɹɛ.sɚ// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.
"For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'"
- 2 someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex wordnet
Example
More examples"He wasn't a cross-dresser. None of it is true."
Etymology
From cross-dress + -er.
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